WPF Developer Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the WPF Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Developer
Rank 182 157 135
Rank change year-on-year
-25 -22
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 21 61 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.329% 0.776% 1.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.356% 0.848% 1.268%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 56 106
Average daily rate £540 £575 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.08% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £513
10% offered a daily rate of more than £660 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- +18.75%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WPF Developer
London

WPF Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WPF Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London WPF Developer Jobs Demand Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WPF Developer across the City of London region.

City of London WPF Developer Daily Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WPF Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London WPF Developer Daily Rate Histogram

WPF Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited WPF Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with WPF Developer in their job title.

1 46 (100.00%) WPF
2 43 (93.48%) C#
3 27 (58.70%) .NET
4 23 (50.00%) Front Office
5 17 (36.96%) Finance
5 17 (36.96%) Multithreading
6 14 (30.43%) MVVM
7 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (28.26%) TDD
7 13 (28.26%) Banking
7 13 (28.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (23.91%) WCF
8 11 (23.91%) Degree
9 9 (19.57%) Risk Management
10 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
10 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
10 8 (17.39%) Derivative
10 8 (17.39%) Investment Banking
11 7 (15.22%) Windows
11 7 (15.22%) Grid Computing
12 6 (13.04%) Fixed Income
12 6 (13.04%) TIBCO
12 6 (13.04%) Mathematics
12 6 (13.04%) .NET Framework
12 6 (13.04%) Reactive Extensions
13 5 (10.87%) Managed Extensibility Framework
13 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
13 5 (10.87%) Silverlight
13 5 (10.87%) OO
13 5 (10.87%) Microsoft

WPF Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited WPF Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with WPF Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 46 (100.00%) WPF
2 27 (58.70%) .NET
3 11 (23.91%) WCF
4 6 (13.04%) .NET Framework
4 6 (13.04%) Reactive Extensions
5 5 (10.87%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 5 (10.87%) Silverlight
6 4 (8.696%) NHibernate
7 3 (6.522%) Castle Windsor
7 3 (6.522%) LINQ
7 3 (6.522%) ASP.NET
8 2 (4.348%) WinForms
8 2 (4.348%) J2EE
8 2 (4.348%) Flash
8 2 (4.348%) Spring
8 2 (4.348%) Apache Flex
8 2 (4.348%) REST
8 2 (4.348%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (4.348%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (2.174%) StructureMap
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.696%) Rendezvous
2 2 (4.348%) MQSeries
3 1 (2.174%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.348%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (4.348%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.348%) Internet
1 2 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.696%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.174%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Expression Blend
2 2 (4.348%) Subversion
2 2 (4.348%) Eclipse
2 2 (4.348%) MSBuild
2 2 (4.348%) MSTest
2 2 (4.348%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.174%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.174%) Moq
3 1 (2.174%) NUnit
General
1 23 (50.00%) Front Office
2 17 (36.96%) Finance
3 13 (28.26%) Banking
4 8 (17.39%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.174%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
2 8 (17.39%) Derivative
3 7 (15.22%) Grid Computing
4 6 (13.04%) Fixed Income
4 6 (13.04%) Mathematics
5 2 (4.348%) RIA
5 2 (4.348%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.174%) Physics
6 1 (2.174%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.174%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.174%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 2 (4.348%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Multithreading
2 14 (30.43%) MVVM
3 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (28.26%) TDD
4 9 (19.57%) Risk Management
5 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (10.87%) OO
6 4 (8.696%) Pair Programming
6 4 (8.696%) Scrum
6 4 (8.696%) Unit Testing
6 4 (8.696%) System Testing
6 4 (8.696%) BDD
7 3 (6.522%) MVC
8 2 (4.348%) Asset Management
8 2 (4.348%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.348%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.348%) Wealth Management
8 2 (4.348%) Investment Management
9 1 (2.174%) Electronic Trading
9 1 (2.174%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 43 (93.48%) C#
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 4 (8.696%) Java
4 3 (6.522%) XAML
5 2 (4.348%) VB
5 2 (4.348%) VBA
6 1 (2.174%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.174%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) TIBCO
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Infragistics
3 4 (8.696%) DevExpress
4 3 (6.522%) Syncfusion
5 2 (4.348%) Oracle
5 2 (4.348%) Charles River
5 2 (4.348%) Adobe
5 2 (4.348%) Tableau
6 1 (2.174%) Fidessa
6 1 (2.174%) Reuters
6 1 (2.174%) Bloomberg
C#, WPF, COMMODITIES, SENIOR DEVELOPER, LONDON
City, London
SKILLS REQUIRED C# .NET4.5 WPF (MVVM, PRISM) SQL server (2008/2012) The standards of the team are high and the role is highly competitive; applicants will face...
Aston Carter
Rate: £650 - £700 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
C#, WCF, WPF, SQL, DEVELOPER, FIXED INCOME, RISK
City, London
The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of Fixed Income, Equity and/or Futures processing through investment banking experience KEY SKILLS REQUIRED oC# and .Net framework (version...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
WPF UI Developer - PRISM, Expression Blend, Infragistics, XAML
City, London
Essential Skills; WPF PRISM Framework Infragistics XAML Expression Blend Strong C# - Threading, Concepts, Collections Engineering/Maths Degree (preference) This is an exciting position giving you a chance to...
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
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